78p 20260629 1101 molason

          
    
     As 78P gets a little higher each morning and out of the atmospheric haze a more accurate calculation of its magnitude, coma and tail become possible. The comet on the morning of 6/29/2026 was magnitude 13.1, coma 0.8' wide and had a tail 2' long at an altitude of 11 degrees as morning twilight was beginning.